NewsletterJanuary 29, 2026

🍷Obladee's battle, Braille Nails + this week's top events

Hey Halifax!

Obladee, one of Downtown Halifax’s most iconic and beloved businesses, has had the rug pulled out from underneath them by Starfish Properties, we’re still giving away free tickets to Rankin’s Winter Warmers and Neptune’s Mad Madge, and we’ve got a ridiculously good local Song of the Week that’s already racked up over 500k streams in it’s first two weeks.

Let’s dig in!

🍷 Obladee’s Lease Abruptly Terminated

After two years fighting scaffolding that nearly killed their business, Obladee finally got the Tramway Building to begin repairs on January 12th.

Now their new landlord, Starfish Properties, is using those same repairs to terminate their lease - effective January 31st. Yes, two days from now.

Emergency court hearing is today. Read their full statement on Instagram →

Visit them this week. Share their story. Let Starfish Properties know what you think.

🎟️ Win Free Tickets

2 Ways to Win:

Enter the weekly ticket giveaway draw and redeem your bonus entries to increase your odds. Once you’re in, you’re in for every week!
Then, upload your best videos from this years Warmers and you’ll be entered to win a ‘27 Season Pass

Mad Madge is getting rave reviews at Neptune Theatre, and we’re giving away two tickets later today.

“It was like like if Fleabag, Schitts Creek and Bridgerton had a baby - hilarious, chaotic, odd and fun. I laughed so hard I cried, and cried at the end. Absolutely loved it.”

CONTEST ENDS AT 5PM TODAY!

Quick Hits

🎭 Our Mad Madge ticket contest ends today at 5pm. From Neptune’s post show survey: “It was like like if Fleabag, Schitts Creek and Bridgerton had a baby - hilarious, chaotic, odd and fun. I laughed so hard I cried, and cried at the end. Absolutely loved it.” WIN FREE TICKETS.

💅 Braille Nails at The Ten Spot is CNIB's Braille Literacy Month fundraiser. Get very fun custom nail art with raised braille dots. A portion of proceeds supports braille literacy programs. Check it out.

🎬 Nova Scotia Retro Film Festo all weekend at Carbon Arc — The 2nd annual festival of Nova Scotia-made films runs Jan 29–Feb 2. The Hanging Garden (Thom Fitzgerald's queer classic), New Waterford Girl, Margaret's Museum (Helena Bonham Carter in Cape Breton), and Hobo with a Shotgun (Jason Eisener's cult classic) - with cast/crew Q&As at every screening. carbonarc.ca

🎤 Pop Punk Powerhouses Vol. 3 Saturday at the Marquee — Paramore tribute band Paraless, RATM cover band Bombtrack, plus 13 drag/burlesque performers. 9pm, $18–$40. A tribute to the late Brandyn Cavanaugh with SPCA donations in his name. Get tickets.

🎮 Global Game Jam this weekend at Dalhousie — Build a game from scratch in 48 hours. All skill levels welcome. Jan 30–Feb 1 at ShiftKey Labs, Goldberg CS Building. $5 registration. Details Here.

🥍 Thunderbirds vs. Georgia Swarm at Scotiabank Centre this Saturday at 7pm.

🎸 Big Shiny Tunes, Halifax’s most beloved nostalgia night, returns Feb 6-7 at The Marquee with an all-star band and local lineup curated by Dave Sampson, Mike Farrington Jr. and Stephanie Purcell. Get tickets.

📅 Dine Around 2026 runs February 1-28 with over 150 local restaurants participating. We’ll be launching a special contest with Burnside Brewing this week, so start scoping out the menus and plan your Feb dinners!

We caught Baby Nova open for Charlotte Cardin in Picton, Ontario back in September. This song, co-written with fellow Nova Scotians Dylan & Jodi Guthro and Carleton Stone, got a mid-song ovation from a packed room that was hearing it (and her) for the first time. It’s that good, and it’s already racked up half a million Spotify streams in it’s first two weeks of release.

I wrote this project trying to get out of a bad situation in life and I hope that it can help (even if in the smallest way) to do the same for other people.

“Dodge” is the only track I put on the record that I didn’t write this year, but that I wrote almost 7 years ago and it’s about how much hard work I knew it would take to get out of where I was. The fact that it’s only now seeing the light of day speaks to how real that song was. I truly lived every single word on this album and tried to be as honest as I could be with my story, the good, bad, ugly and the naughty ;).

Baby Nova via Instagram